On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:17:51AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
>
> In the case of the java plugin (java.xpi), manual installation is a
> pretty simple matter. Put java.xpi in $MOZILLA_HOME/plugins and unzip
> it (with the 'unzip' command). Rename the resulting directory to
> 'java2'. I don't know if that's actually necessary, but that's what the
> mozilla auto-installer does. Then run
> ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
> Java will now work.
Apparently Java and Mozilla simply refuse to exist on my box. Since I
can seem to download the jre.xpi and since the auto installation has
failed with every build I've tried since M18, I can only assume it is
personal...
I downloaded the j2re-1_3_0_01-linux.bin file from java.sun.com and
installed it using the built-in script. I then created the sym-link as
detailed above. Started Mozilla and all it registered was the null
plugin. Both Java and Shockwave are not recognized. I know the routine
will find plugins as the Blackdown Java plugin for NS 4.x causes an
error and Mozilla terminates.
I've even tried setting MOZILLA_HOME to the proper path manually and
still no joy. Going to a page with Java only causes Mozilla to prompt
to download the plugin, which I've done several times with the same
results as now. I thought about installing the M18 package and seeing
if that works, but thought I'd try this first. Right now I am using
Mozilla 0.8 from the tar.gz package and Potato.
Ideas?
- Nate >>
> Flash is even easier. The flash archive contains 2 important files:
> ShockwaveFlash.class and libflashplayer.so. Just put them in
> $MOZILLA_HOME/plugins and re-start mozilla. Check the debugging output
> when starting mozilla and you'll see that it detects the new plugins.
Not here...
> Often, however, a site won't detect flash simply because you're running
> mozilla and it doesn't know how to handle the user-agent string (or
> something braindead like that). So it assumes that you're using a
> completely incapable browser. Often sites will have a link that allows
> you to get their flash content even if they don't detect the flash
> plugin.
>
> This method has been working for me since...I dunno, several months ago,
> and I update mozilla with a nightly build once a week or so.
Must be nice... :(
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